We’ve been using Linear in my latest company and it is actually quite good. No bullshit fast UI, boards, issues linking with Git, a support that can take a feature request that is often implemented in a week or two after asking it.
I’ve tried out Linear (only peeked into it) and it’s the perfect contrast of performance against Jira.
jira made me quit software dev (not by its own, but a significant factor)
I hate jira because it slots your work stupidly by the management, or so I feel it.
A manager usually works with time slots, say 8 a day (or whatever), they are all mostly disconnected, like do meeting with A, go to standup of team B, PMD for dev C etc etc. Dev isn’t like that but everyone seems to start thinking it is: how many “items” was finalised last “sprint” etc and other stupid metrics.
Am I alone here or is there even worse things with jira in your opinions?
Now imagine a very large company implementing that shit software for other kinds of engineering projects! Yey! Lot’s of great engineers have quit because of it.
Jira, we’ll brain drain your company and make it seem more productive!
Next thing you know…well the guy who understood that is no longer here. But we can take our best guess… should the door pop inward or outward during a flight?
Azure Dev Ops and Azure Boards is even worse. Wish I could quit dev
I feel you there too bud!
They have a predatory business model. “Hey we’re cheaper than the competition”. Once you’re soaking in it and need features, they have options but it’ll cost you. I reckon they have slick sales people who know how to pander to the egos of middle management as well. You know … The people who don’t actually have to use the tool but sure like to feel like they somehow matter.
JIRA is fine as long as you forego using fucking align. Goddamn fucking align is a the biggest waste of upsell that they catch product managers in ever.
Anyone who pushes jira is a waste of fucking carbon, and I hope they never find happiness.
why would you curse the waste disposal people at the landfill?
Here’s my Jira experience. MS shop, have a programming department, but I’m not in programming and programming isn’t our core product.
Need something that requires a Jira request. I use MS Edge because that’s what IT recommends and it’s not my computer. The only putative upside is that it knows who I’m logged in as. I click on the link for Jira, it asks me if I want to sign in with my account, which I assume is the MS one since it has the right email/user for it. It tells me that’s the wrong one. Would I like to use my Atlassian account? Sure, let’s use the same email. Whoops, you don’t have an Atlassian account, but there’s an MS account for your company. Do you want to use that, or something from the usual list of places that will log you in (Google, Facebook, MS)? Note that the MS option is only included in the list of third-party logins even though it knows my company has MS logins setup. So I click the MS option, and it may or may not ask for my password, because I’m already logged in via Edge, but it will certainly do my 2FA. And now I’m finally able to tell IT what is bothering me, and they wonder why people always seem frustrated.
So, now that I’ve gone through that once, I can save a single click by not choosing the Atlassian account option and go directly to signing in with a third party. I can only assume this is supposed to be the streamlined process.
I mean, it just sounds like the people from your Tools/Infrastructure/IT/Devops/whatever-it’s-called-for-you department are fucking incompetent and can’t properly configure a Single Sign-On. Took mine a few years as well, I think the ticket was stuck in the queue behind the “restart some servers when nobody’s watching to see how long until they find the issue” tickets, which they seemed to be working on weekly.
Also, I can’t think of any reason why SSO can’t work with Mozilla or Chrome also, not just with Edge.
All my homies hate agile, Jira, scrum, kanban, etc.
In truth none of these items are inherently wrong - what’s wrong is leadsership picking up new tools and adopting management structures expecting them to solve fundamental organizational issues.
Instead they only serve to magnify the outcomes of your existing corporate culture.
It’s funny that “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” is the first of the tenets of agile and the most ignored. I think most people’s frustrations with agile are from people worrying too much about processes and tools.
Scrum/Agile has 2 advantages over waterfall.
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things that don’t work get stopped early, without stigma.
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the team works together towards an overall goal, it is not individuals working on individual tasks.
The “agile” tools themselves rarely encourage either of these practices.
Jira
- assigns tasks to individuals.
- treats closed and cancelled differently.
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I think you hit the main issue right there. Devs don’t hate the tool, they hate that the tool doesn’t solve the issue. Like trying to drill a hole with a screw and a hammer.
Strong agree! It drives me crazy how much hate scrum agile gets because when it’s implemented intelligently I’ve found it really helps align everyone’s expectations (I’m a dev)
I use Teams and Jira, and I can’t even imagine the amount of wasted time when I click anything in either of them and nothing happens for a good while, just waiting around.
Jira is a masterpiece compared to the dumpster fire that is Teams.
Maybe the old, discontinued on-premise version. The cloud version of JIRA is a huge step back.
With that said, Teams is not a good product either.
There’s still Jira Data Center but nobody wants to pay extra for it so instead we have to deal the the garbage that is Cloud.
Teams is the worst product Microsoft has released since IE.
Have you heard of windows millennium?
We do not speak of that one. It was a dark time, a chaotic time. Do not utter that name so casually. Many know not of which we speak. May their souls never experience the curse of that knowledge.
I beg to differ.
I’ve not had a real issue with teams since the early ‘new teams’ release. Nor have I had issues prior.
Using Jira is actually something I dread every day.
Knowing I have to go through the list of tasks and projects, where each click means another few seconds of staring blankly at the screen as it loads.In an age where I’m used to every interaction having a near instant reaction, using Jira feels like peeling potatoes with a butter knife.
Maybe you just don’t have a reasonable comparison. We just switched from Slack and Zoom to Teams and it has significantly impacted our ability to collaborate and communicate. It’s constantly dropping calls, video quality is awful, annotation is awful, the layout is wasteful with tons of wasted space, audio is terrible, there’s no closed captioning visible while screen sharing, there are too many problems to list. It’s the type of product I’d expect from a high school programming class, not a trillion dollar company.
constantly dropping calls, video quality is awful […], audio is terrible,
I have none of these issues with Teams. Maybe your internet connection sucks?
As an outsider to a lot of such corporate things it sounds like they both suck a lot, just in different ways.
I never had any issues with Zoom or Slack. They do what they’re supposed to do. Jira is fine too, but I’m not a PM, so I don’t have to deal with anything other than the Kanban board.
Edit: I guess it’s relevant that I’m on a MacBook Pro, and not a Windows machine.
If you press F12 and look at the network calls you can see the insane amount of analytics they are sending for every twitch of the mouse
Why? What do these do?
Don’t worry teamsters we added 6 new ticket statuses so they can get auto-sorted straight to the abyss.
With Jira everything is an issue
Just do a lightweigt process in a few docs and Excel, and meet in person often enough that you know what folks are doing. That’s SOOOO much better and more natural for getting real work done. Great ideas die in JIRA among endless planning meetings and premature decomposition and estimates.
Where happy teams go to die.
Friends don’t let friends use JIRA
“I’m not your friend. By the way, if you don’t use Jira you’re fired.” -Middle Managment
“I hate Jira too. you’re fired”- Senior management.
Seriously though - JIRA isn’t always a massive pain in the ass. It’s just the way it’s used that sucks. Workflow restrictions so devs can’t move tickets from testing back to in progress, dozens of mandatory fields, etc.
When your tools start dictating your workflow rather than the other way around then it’s time to switch tools.
And the metrics, “we see many back and forth between the dev and test” -> devs stops doing it.
Idk man, better than a post it Kanban… which is where I came from.
If Jira is shit, it’s not Jira, it’s your Manager. It takes some effort to learn and use, but when it’s set up and maintained, it helps a lot, especially for Virtual Teams.
Edit: But their Ai is shit. They gave it for free and now want to charge money for it. Nah bro, not for that retard.
The UI and UX is shit. Performance is shit. It’s not only about configuration.
Yeah, jira is going alright for us at work, but there are a lot of supporting people maintaining it and prioritizing things in meetings that we engineers don’t have to attend.
Everybody gangs up on hating Teams instead!
Teams and the entire Office-Package is pure pain on Linux. We have mixed OS (based on preference) but we all use Office and it’s a dread for our SW-Department. =[
I know teams is probably the most hated product in tech savvy corporate America, but I do at least give MS credit that I can let it live in a Firefox tab and my audio & video work fine for meetings.
But when anybody tries to use a Teams-equipped conference room? Whoo boy!
Audio working in Teams? If I accept a call and then plug in my worthless usb headset, it just doesn’t function.
One time out of five or ten to be generous, making a room and inviting just 1 person just foesnt work either, gotta call up a third person to make the sound work.
I mean how hard can it be …
I think I need to compliment our IT department. I have experienced 0 problems with teams. Sometimes my network quality falls, but I just switch to my phone and everything continues.
Disclaimer: Never used the captions, meeting summary etc. Just the basics
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